Philip Martin
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Copyright Philip Martin 2011 Philip Martin 52 Marakari Cres Mount Coolum Qld, Australia Email: seatyed@aol.com http://www.healyourcancer.org/
Special Note
The author of this book is not dispensing medical advice and no part of this book should be used or perceived as diagnosis, prescription or treatment for medical conditions. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to tempt questioning and inquisitiveness.
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Introduction ...................................................... 6 Overview ......................................................... 11 How the Mind Creates Meaning .................. 21 What is Cancer? .............................................. 28 Illness to Health ............................................. 44 Step 1: What are your Personal Beliefs? ..... 57 Step 1: What are you Global Beliefs ............. 63 Step 1: What are your Values? ....................... 69 Step 1: What are your Rules? ......................... 73 Step 1: What are your Limitations?............... 75 Step 1: What are your Resources? ................. 79 Step 1: What do you Want? ........................... 81 Step 1: What do you Not Want? ................... 85 Step 1: What is Important to You? ............... 89 Step 1: What have tos, must dos, cants, etc have You? 91 Step 1: What is your Story? .......................... 100 Step 2: Where are you Going? ..................... 104 Step 3: How much change is Necessary? ... 111
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Step 4: Decide ................................................ 118 Step 5: Actions............................................... 129 Step 5: Time ................................................... 153 Step 5: Delete Stress ..................................... 159 Step 5: Resolve Emotional Stress ............... 161 Step 5: Beliefs................................................. 165 Step 5: Self Hypnosis .................................... 179 Index .............................................................. 183
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1 Introduction
ello, as this writing is about healing cancer, I will assume you are afflicted with this thing called Cancer and so my writing will reflect this.
Information is the key to solving any problem, for if there is a problem, then there is a lack of information. If we had all the necessary information, then the solution would be obvious and we would simply proceed to the solution and we would not label the event a problem. Information itself is neutral but we as human beings, perceive the information according to our own unique habitual way of thinking and when we do this, we force the information to conform to our perceptions or if this is too difficult, we will just dismiss the information altogether. I am supplying information and sometimes it may be confronting to you and you may become uncomfortable. And in healing a chronic disease, such as cancer, it is necessary to be willing to become uncomfortable, for change is uncomfortable and you do want change. Being cancer free and healthy is a drastic change from where you are at today. www.healyourcancer.org Page 6
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are important to you? Importance is relative. Is your life the most important, most valuable thing you have? How many trivial things feel important to you? How important is what other people think of you? Those cancer survivors got a wakeup call (we all need one) but they got the wakeup call because they had to face death and the lack of time in which to live. When you are faced with death, you have to weigh it up against life. This is what the brain naturally does, it is like a set of scales and on one side is death and on the other side is life. We do this continually throughout our lives and we continually choose life and decided to live. We may be totally unaware of this but our brain makes this decision every day. We choose to have life instead of death. So what is the wakeup call? If death is imminent, that is, time is running out, it means that the life on the set of scales is not much better than death for without time then death occurs anyway. If there is plenty of time, then we will naturally choose life, we will make the same choice that we make every day, and by choosing life this means that we continue our existence as it is. This existence is basically the same routine, pattern of behaving, thinking and feeling we have been doing for years, but when time is running out, then the Life on the set of scales is too painful and our brain looks more closely at what Life is. And life is that magical us superimposed or supported by a pattern of living and this pattern of living is actually a set of instructions (information, meaning, perception etc) that we blindly and unknowingly follow. The Us we cant change but the pattern of our life, this we can change, so for the mind to choose life over death, the life has to change (to a life with a lot more time and therefore a lot less painful) and so the mind discards the old pattern or changes the pattern to one that is healthier. In that moment when the mind sees the scales of life/death as nearly balanced (they are similar, they have nearly the same weight, that is they are both too painful) then there is a golden opportunity, when to live, is to transform the old pattern. Those survivors did just that and now they are the same person but with a different outlook on life. They didnt change but how they perceive life changed. The earlier you have this change, the greater the chance of survival. In fact if these survivors had this change earlier (years) then I contend that they would not have had cancer.
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2 Overview
The start of any journey is at the beginning, If we know where we are, we can then know the direction to take, to arrive at our destination.
he beginning of your journey from chronic disease to a state of health and wellbeing is now, this moment in time. The information at this moment in time is crucial, for you to arrive at your destination. The information is where you are. If you dont know where you are or worse still, you think that you are in a different place, how can you get to your destination. The directions may be correct but if you are starting from the wrong place, you will fail to reach your destination. If you have Cancer or other chronic disease, then I suggest to you, that you are in a state of misinformation. That you do not know where you are and therefore arriving at your destination of health and wellbeing, will be thoroughly difficult, even if you have the right directions. The major hurdle to overcome in order to achieve health. The biggest problem you have to overcome in your quest, is misinformation. This cannot be overstated. Unless you come to terms with this, you will be expending and wasting vast amounts of valuable energy and resources. You will be swimming against the tide, rather than swimming with www.healyourcancer.org Page 11
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the tide. To heal, or in fact to achieve anything in life, then look for the path of least resistance. To heal a chronic and/or terminal disease you need correct information. Information about where you are, information of where you want to be and information about the process involved in moving from where you are, to where you want to be. This chapter will concern itself with the first necessary set of information: Information regarding where you are at now. Where are you? Where are you? It may seem obvious that where you are, is in the space that you are occupying now, maybe on a chair etc. By where you are, I mean the information regarding your disease and your involvement with the disease. Once again, this is crucial, and the most misunderstood component of the disease to health process. Where you are at now, is the culmination of all the interaction (information) that has taken place between you and your environment (including your internal environment) of your entire life from conception, plus genetic and evolutionary information. The information that is needed to be understood at this point in time, is the information pertaining to the mind. This information includes thoughts, ideas, assumptions, beliefs, meanings, perceptions etc. This type of information has the power to create and transform actions. This type of information is an amazing force and a force it is. This information, this force, creates an effect. I will call this type of information meanings. And where you are today is a result, an effect, of all this information that has gone on before now. Pure Information is neutral and it is what we do with that information that matters. We take in information and use it and transform it and create further information from it. We as human beings can be seen as information transfer machines. Back to meanings, meanings are not neutral (or pure) information. Meanings are information with an act of consciousness attached. Think about meanings, perceptions etc, and you will realize that they are all constructs and concepts, in other words, they are all made up. We create them and they are truly powerful for they create actions, effects and results. But meanings are illusions! They can be harmful or beneficial for us but they are still illusions. They are not true and they are not fact, they are in fact deniers of truth. www.healyourcancer.org Page 12
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emotion i.e. we feel bad. But where did the meaning come from? It happened automatically and ironically it came from previous meanings that we applied, to an earlier somewhat similar situation. Remember, the event is neutral! We feel that the meaning (based on our blueprint, which is based on old meanings) is true, but the meaning is only our perception. So we are where we are today, based on the accumulation of old meanings, some such as Im worthless, Im nothing etc. How would you feel if you discarded all those meanings? As a result, all your memories would not affect you anymore. How would you feel? How would your life be different? What could you achieve? It is worth contemplating, isnt it? As I said earlier, the mind is compelled to attach a meaning to every event. Well, if all meanings are deniers of truth, what can we do? There is one meaning that is truthful in any and every event and that meaning is I am. The fact is that in any event that you have, you are present. This meaning is extremely powerful for it is true. The Ego which by the way is the part of you that attaches meaning, is always seeking validation and any other validation other than I am is only a part of the whole. I am includes every possibility without denying any. So know where you are. Please do exercise 1. Exercise 1. Write down everything you know about your cancer. For example What do you know about the cause of your cancer? What processes are involved? What happens when you heal? What beliefs, perceptions etc do you have regarding this disease. What does having cancer mean to you? How do you feel about having cancer? What ramifications are there for you? www.healyourcancer.org Page 14
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information is accessible. Obtain that information and then you are at the starting point and you can proceed to your destination, once you know the destination and have the directions. Getting to the starting point is where in my opinion nearly everybody gets it wrong and yet some get there by accident. So lets remedy that. It is interesting to know how people have got to the starting point by accident for they surely did something right, even if they dont consciously know what they did. Basically (very basically) when they discovered that they have cancer (for example), they played out (imagined) what they thought they knew. They saw themselves at the end of their life (as distinct from dying for we are all dying the only variable is time), therefore they saw themselves with no time left and this is more unbearable than dying. By having no time left they have only two options, I will talk much about how the brain processes information and options later. What are the options: 1. Death. 2. Life. Now obviously they would pick life as the will to live is our greatest instinct but there is a dilemma, because time has run out. If we have a choice this or that, then the brain has to know about the choices, what are they? Well death is obvious to the brain (death is when life becomes invalid, ceases) and what does the brain put on the other side? If it puts life as in the life the person has lived up till now. Then what will be the outcome? Death, for that is the situation the person is in, as time is running out. The person is now stuck, they are in despair as there is no obvious solution and the conscious mind shuts down as it cant process any more. In this state there is an opportunity, as there is no resistance and if they will to live is strong, then the brain puts life as the other choice but what life? It cannot be the same life, so how can the brain change the life choice, into one that has more time attached to it? This is the question that incidentally leads to survival. What part of our life is changeable? The mind now has an amazing opportunity to do something, that it has been prevented up until now, from doing by the Ego. It removes Meaning from the persons life and for an instant the persons life is bland, neutral and devoid of meaning. Once this happens the program/pattern/paradigm of the persons life disintegrates and becomes invalid, for it is meaning that connects (glues) all the components together. And as Ego is the creator of meanings, the Ego is compelled to place meaning on its life. With all previous meanings removed, the Ego (prompted by the unconscious primal blueprint which is formed at conception) sees what is important which is very little compared to before. The www.healyourcancer.org Page 16
This is the crucial step and why is this so? Without this decision, which is to discard the old life pattern and adopt a new pattern of living (which will have health as a central principle), the old pattern remains and the information that is part of the cancer process continues to produce the effect, that you are already experiencing. This is why cancer and other chronic disease are difficulty to heal. While the old pattern is in place, you are fighting yourself and while you dont
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know what the pattern is, you are fighting an unknown enemy. That is why the losses are high. Once the decision is made to have the new life rather than the old life, then the brain has a choice between death and life (which is the new life, with a changed program/pattern/paradigm) and naturally everyday from now on chooses life. Which reinforces this new improved way of living. People who have survived cancer are generally grateful for having had cancer, for they have learnt something of tremendous value. Their values have changed, the meaning of their life is changed and changed for the better. For their new pattern is more in harmony with their original blueprint. Incidentally this is what everyone is seeking! This is why many cancer survivors say that having cancer (though not wanted) was a blessing. Now healing by accident can be a very short process, that crucial decision actually takes place in a flash and once that decision is made then you have healed. The physical healing, that is, the cell and metabolic changes will take a period of time. But the resistance has been removed. Each and every day is bringing you closer to physical health. Rather than wishing for an accidental healing, we can design the process so that we can have that healing.
B
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Know where you are
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A or B? Do you want to proceed? Imagine A getting worse if you dont change & leading to eventual consequences. Now would you rather die than not change???
5 Actions
Take all actions that are necessary
If Yes
If No
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The diagram above sets out the steps involved in the healing process. The underling process is to discard or transform the governing pattern and create a new governing pattern. Most people only concern themselves with step 5, they only want to know what actions to do. It is a bit like, you are on one side of a mountain and your goal is on the other side of the mountain. You have a pair of skis to help you ski down the mountain to reach your goal. But trying to ski down the mountain, while you are at the bottom of the other side, wont work. You have to get to the top of the mountain first.
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hy is it necessary to know how the mind creates meaning? If you have cancer then I put it to you, that the cancer is a result of a pattern of meanings. What do I mean by this? Meaning is information that our mind has placed on an event, and this meaning is causative, that is, meaning produces reactions and those reactions have an effect. And all meanings are produced by the conscious mind. For every event in your life you will attach a meaning, for example if you watched your neighbour, place a wooden stake in the ground in his front yard, can you just accept that he simply put that stake in the ground and leave it at that? Or are you compelled to know why he put that stake in the ground? Your mind wants to place a sentence in your memory with what you physically saw. It wants to attach the sentence he put the stake in the ground because ..... It could be that he is going to put a letter box on top or he may attach a for sale sign on it or if you see www.healyourcancer.org Page 21
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4 What is Cancer?
A word can be a dangerous thing.
hat is cancer? It is whatever it means to you. To some people it is a death sentence, to some a cruel cosmic joke and to some a wakeup call. It is a six letter word. But you will have your own unique meaning and understanding of what it means for you and you will base your journey on your perceptions. However, if you suspend your perceptions and start with, cancer is only a six letter word, then you will be open to other possibilities and you may wonder where those possibilities will lead you to. But such is the power of words, that the word cancer can be a code or a representation for something else. That something else is the meanings and beliefs, which you have attached to the word and where did these meanings and beliefs come from? Mostly from yours and societys perceptions. We see and hear of many people dying from cancer and we then fear this thing called cancer. You fear the unknown elements of it and the uncertainty of it. This fear is perpetrated in the media as it is dramatic, also this fear is a huge money spinner for the industries that feed off it. There is a constant a cure is just around the corner and this is like the carrot and the donkey metaphor, it keeps the status quo of us kept in fear of cancer but with the promise a cure is www.healyourcancer.org Page 28
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meet the challenge of the change assaulting us. Sometimes the change is minimal and we are unaware of the adaptation. Sometimes the change is large and our reaction is proportionally large and we become aware that we are ill (which is suffering the effects of the reaction). When a new flu virus or bacteria is in our environment, we are threaten and challenged by this, and our bodies meet this challenge and a battle ensues. If we win the battle, we become stronger and healthier, for the bacteria is still in the environment, but our bodies have adapted to the point, where the bacteria is no longer a threat to us. Illness makes us healthier; it is simply a part of the survival and evolution process. Take for example measles; most of us have had the illness called measles. We are invaded by the measles virus in childhood. The virus threatens our young bodies and after a period of intense interactions, we become victorious and our bodies have the information necessary to always quickly mount a counter attack. We are now immune from the illness measles. Still each year the measles virus attacks our bodies and yet we are unaware of the intruders. This is because we now have the capacity/knowledge to effectively neutralise the bacteria. It can be realised that the disease called measles is actually the healing process of the body at work. The symptoms are the reactions, which take place to overcome the irritant (the measles virus). For instance the body often produces fever to destroy viruses and bacteria as they are heat sensitive. Fever is a tool that the healing system utilises. It is a good thing and after the battle with the measles virus, we are healthier than before we had the illness. In the big picture of evolution the strong survive so that the next generation has a better chance, so even though some die from acute illness, mankind is healthier. Now let me make a point here. I have just described the natural illness process, which is a part of the health process. More accurately I have described the acute illness process. That is, illness leads to increased health. What about chronic illnesses and diseases such as cancer, arthritis, multiple sclerosis etc. where are the health producing benefits of these illnesses? What has gone wrong, why do these diseases lead to deterioration and death? Discovering the answers to these questions helps remove what prevents the natural health process from occurring. Our bodies have the capability to heal from all these diseases and to heal and be healthy is a two pronged attack. 1. Is to do health promoting actions, actions that encourage the healing process and Page 30
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The disease process is the one that there is little information about and yet it is vital to understand this process if one wants to heal cancer. Or another way to look at it, with regard to healing, is that the healing process starts from the disease process, not separate from it. As can be seen from the acute disease Measles the disease is the reaction and adaptation to an irritant, so the disease is actually the process of healing, that is, the healing in glorious action!. Is cancer any different No. All diseases are the interaction between an irritant/s (toxins, foreign fibres etc, radiation, bacteria, viruses and emotional distress) and the body. These irritants can be called stress. When the body receives stress, it will alleviate this stress in any way it can and this is called healing. So, if you get a splinter you can see the reaction of the body to the irritating splinter, the site of the splitter will swell up, there will be pressure on the surrounding tissue, pus will form and these actions are needed to expel the splinter or dissolve it. If you remove the irritant (splinter) the healing process (responding to the irritant) stops and the cells return to normal. Am I contending that Cancer is the bodys response and reaction to a stress (irritant) Yes. The irritant is a stress and in cancer and other chronic diseases, that stress is still occurring, that is, the stress hasnt been resolved or nullified. We in this period of evolution live with an enormous amount of stress coming from all directions and it is this cumulative stress that is so destructive. We can have stress from work and when we relax at home that stress is gone. When we go on a holiday we can be far removed from stress and our bodys stress level can go way down. In fact many people go into remission when they are on holiday or make a major change in their life. The cancer tends to return when they return back to their previous way of living and the stressful situations return. What would you like to take a holiday from? By reducing stress in any area, the body has more vitality and energy and therefore is healthier. The irritant that the so called cancer is reacting to is still there but the body has less total stress. So, what will happen if the irritant at the centre of www.healyourcancer.org Page 31
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the cancer is removed? Without that irritating stress, the cancer cells will return to normal! There is no need to keep responding and reacting to that stress. Those cancer cells will stop doing what they are doing which is healing! (the damage caused by the irritant) and you will be healed. The normal acute illness process is when an irritant (measles virus etc) irritates the body, the body reacts and adapts to the threat and the body nullifies the threat and is now in harmony with its environment and is now healthier than before the illness. The chronic disease process is when the reaction and adaption does not succeed in removing the irritant or more generally the irritant is constantly occurring. The irritant remains and therefore there is mal adaption, the body can only keep doing what it is doing, which is healing (with collateral damage) with no removal of the irritant. Think of a grain of sand entering an oyster and lodging in the soft flesh. Now, the oyster cannot remove the irritating grain of sand and so creates mucus to ease the irritation. The process continues till we have a beautiful pearl (cancer of the oyster) that will end up killing the oyster. The healing process that is saving the oysters life from the irritant, keeps trying in vain to minimise the irritation. Life was prolonged and cut short at the same time. When we have a disease caused (mainly) by a physical irritant, then it is easy to see the cause, but chronic diseases usually involve physical, nutritional and emotional irritants. It is the emotional irritants that are little understood and to many cancers, the main cause and the prime factor in preventing health occurring. Remember, disease is the result of the body attempting to heal a stress. Every cell in our body is a complete living organism and it is the amazing connectedness and collective working together that allows us to be existing in this form, as a human being. Each cell has a respiratory system, a digestive system, a reproductive system and a nervous system. Each cell has its own internal environment and it reacts and communicates with its external environment. The cell communicates by receptors on the cell wall and it has receptors for incoming and outgoing information/communication. So the cells respond to and influence the whole (which is us). So a cell can receive a signal or stimulus from its external environment and if the signal is stressful to the cell, then that cell will send out signals communicating the stress, that will be received by other cells and this generates stress in these cells.
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polluting environment. So continually having negative emotions are similar to ingesting poisons (carcinogens). The emotions that are generally related to cancer are the absorbing kind such as resentment, hate, shame etc, the expressing kind tend to produce different diseases. When we have negative emotions and we internalise them, it seems as if there is no way to rid ourselves of them. We own them, they become a part of us, we keep them, we store them, we may even treasure them! These negative emotions create an internal pattern of feeling, that operates as an unconscious habitual program, and so while our conscious mind may become unaware over time of the constant irritation, our body has to deal with the effects of this stress, continually. Like little drops of acid continually drip, drip dripping. Today, treatment of cancer begins with the perception that the person has Cancer. This perception means that the Cancer is alien to you and therefore can be cut out or treated separately, (even natural methods promote your immune system so it can kill the cancer.) and is the cornerstone of most treatments today. Let me ask you a question, it may upset you if you are currently suffering from cancer, but it is only food for thought. But for your sake read on. The question is (A) Have you got Cancer or (B) Have you a cancerous life pattern? If you answered A; be healthy or cured. Then treatment = You have to get rid of the cancer to
If you answered B; Then treatment = You have to change to a non cancerous life pattern or healthy person. The word cancerous conjures up some undesirable connotations. What I mean by cancerous is - causing or responsible for the disease state called Cancer. You see, Cancer is a result of certain patterns. If anybody has these same patterns, then they will develop cancer also. You of course did not have the intention of being ill, but you can now have the intention to be healthy, which is the result of having and following through with the intention to change patterns. Change the patterns and you change the result.
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It is this powerful instantaneous unconscious comparing and discarding without conscious awareness, which enables us to maintain our patterns. It makes living easier, and we simply would die out as a species if, we didnt have this ability. If our conscious mind considered everything it saw, we would be in a continual state of utter confusion. Our unconscious mind probably discards and rejects 90% plus of incoming information that it encounters. It is this magnificent ability that enables us to survive but there is a cost. Our power of conscious choice is inversely related to our unconscious power of rejection, if we reject 90% of incoming information, we have 10% power of conscious choice. So, our freedom of choice, that most wonderful character of the human species, is only a perception. We only think we have the power of choice, when in fact we only have about 10%. We have the power of choice but we rarely use it! What has this to do with Cancer? Well, the cure is in choosing to change your unconscious pattern, the pattern that supports the cancerous process. This is where the difficulty for many lies. Let me explain. The part of the unconscious mind that keeps this pattern is like a computer. It accepts how it is programmed as a fact. For example, if a computer programmer programmed a computer that one plus one equals three. The computer would calculate every sum so that the pattern of 1+1=3 would be maintained. It would automatically discard any sum which disproved 1+1=3, and if you tried to tell or type in or in any way correct the computer (unless you are a computer programmer and go in and modify the original program), you would have no success whatsoever. The fact that you know that one plus one is two, has no effect. It is the same with your unconscious mind. Even though it formed its pattern with the undeveloped maturity and mentality of a five year old child, this became your unconscious programmed pattern, that your unconscious mind concludes as an absolute fact. This pattern may have been useful for a five year old child (in its own unique environment then), but if you as an adult have cancer, then this pattern is no longer desirable or appropriate, it is no longer pro-life or pro-survival. It is killing you. You have to change your pattern. Lets talk about patterns. Say that you were born into a family that had strict rules. From the time you were born you would be learning about your world. You would learn that some of your behaviours are called right or wrong, good or bad, and certain consequences would follow. If you were born into a large boisterous or loud family, you may learn that you have to be loud or aggressive to get what you want. These qualities would be www.healyourcancer.org Page 36
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quality. The owner of the quality is an identity /ego or you could call it the operator of the quality. This quality is static, a tool and therefore needs an operator to decide when to use the quality. So the identity/ego/operator is you, but when you first used that quality. Though you have grown up, the you (the memory of that time) stays fixed in time, for the pattern (the quality/identity/and criteria when to use) needs to be stable so as to be useable. You grow up and mature but the myriad of patterns do not, as they are programs to be used by you. It is this identification and attachment of a part of your ego (an early memory) to the quality, that makes the quality feel as it is a part of you and your perception sees them as evil, bad, faulty, horrible etc, because it thinks, mistakenly that they are anti-life, deadly. Each and every one feels rejected, hated, imprisoned etc. How would you feel in this situation? Now, like all human beings, they need to be loved, accepted, wanted and valued. They are a part of the community called You. If you lived in a community such as a town or city and you and your neighbours or suburb were ostracised, not wanted, rejected, you would form your own community and endeavour to exist apart from the larger community. You would split from the original community. This would probably lead to a civil war. This is cancer of a country. It is caused by a lack of understanding, misinformation and intolerance to others. In the human body, it is the same scenario with the exception that the chemical and physical functioning of the body, being developed over thousands of years, sees both sides as parts of the body and wont attack itself. So the rejected community grows and it seeks to survive and grow as it rejects the other side for it is rejected. You can imagine the enormous stress that occurs and why many people feel that there is a war going on inside. Negotiation is the cure. If the rejected parts are accepted, then they become parts of the functioning whole and the whole person becomes healthy. No part is bad, evil, horrible etc; it is only an unhealthy perception. That perception is faulty. When you see the truth, the reality, the wall disappears, fear evaporates and you become whole. When the rejected parts are accepted and loved then the identities of the parts meld with the ego and the ego is more whole and less fragmented. You probably will rarely use those rejected qualities, for you now have choice of when and where to use those qualities, rather than have them on automatic pilot. The www.healyourcancer.org Page 38
Balance and harmony (health); when the see-saw is able to move, that is one side has more energy and power, it moves down, as it moves down, the energy and power is transformed to the opposite side and that side goes down. Hence the see-saw motion is one of harmony. When we reject one side, we give it power, we label it bad, we have to be aware of it at all times, so we can control it and we give power to the accepted side and label it good. They have equal power for they are directly opposite. They match for the more we accept the accepted side, the more we are rejecting the rejected side. So the process is similar to trying to run away from our shadow. We show the world the accepted part and the accepted part lives in the town called conscious and the rejected part lives in the internal darkness and lives in the town of unconscious. Outcasts festering and brooding, resenting their stagnant, impoverished and imprisoned life. The bigger the towns get, the further apart they become till the internal town breaks away from any connection with the rest of you and decides to live and survive and become autonomous for what other choice can it have?.
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Imbalance occurs when we try to continue to keep energy on one side. The opposite side stores the transferred energy, and you have to produce more energy on the accepted side. Of course this leads to an ever increasing imbalance and an ever increasing stress, which ultimately fails and the rejected side finally has an excess of energy, while the accepted side is fatigued. The rejected side then comes to the fore and the body remains imbalanced with continual fatigue producing symptoms. Some imbalances result in cancer, some in arthritis, some in multiple sclerosis, some in headaches etc.
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What imbalances result in cancer? Generally speaking, the main quality is absorbing (its opposite is expressing). In other words you tend to internalise hate, pain, hurt, sadness, bitterness, rejection, embarrassment, guilt, resentment and helplessness etc. It may have been your early learning not to express your anger, hurt etc. You may have felt guilty or been scolded when you expressed those feelings. Your young mind probably thought you were going to die. For it is very easy for the young mind to be overloaded with nervous energy, sadness etc and like any electrical circuit when too much energy is produced it burns out or explodes. Our nervous system is the same, when there is too much energy produced in the system (overwhelming feelings), the young unconscious mind quite correctly interprets this as life threatening. High up in the mental emotional areas we interpret this, as a feeling of I am going to die. A state of shock happens. This state of shock is the system shutting down. It is actually a miniature state of death. The diaphragm freezes, so you are not breathing, you are actually dying. The brain is unable to process information and shuts down if only for a couple of seconds. In the area of the brain where the statement I am going to die is, there is corresponding physical damage in the part of the body that relates to that part of the brain. This shock only lasts for a very short time, for you get a kick start, a short burst of adrenalin, and you gasp www.healyourcancer.org Page 40
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Why not feel sorry for it? Feel compassion? Send love? Forgive? And there is absolutely no need for blame or guilt. Accept it, dont be afraid, share with it, cry with it, become best friends of friends and the cancer cells will breathe the air of life and give a huge sigh of relief and rejoin healthily with you. I am wondering how many communities in the world are feeling rejected and cornered. These communities may feel they do not have control over their affairs, they may feel that other communities judge them as bad and evil. They may feel that they are not accepted, not wanted. How do they perceive those that are rejecting them? Do they reject back and see the other side as evil?. When communities have their needs unmet, they react to survive. They adopt a fight or flight response. They feel threatened as anyone feels threatened when their needs are not met. Survival is always paramount. Threaten a people with extinction or rejection and you can expect retaliation. The leaders of the world act as if they are children in a kindergarten. Would they fight if they felt safe with a secure future? When powerful nations threaten weaker nations with economic or military manipulation, and peoples futures become bleak, trouble is in store. We as individuals mirror our world at large and our world at large mirror us and the wars going on outside are similar to the wars going on inside us. Cancer is a label, there are many different types of cancer, some are predominately a result of emotional/mental processes and some are predominately a result of physical, nutritional or biological processes. Asbestosis for example is a result of physical damage caused by the inhalation of asbestos fibres. This can lead to Mesothelioma which is cancer of the internal protective linings of the body, mainly the lungs. It can be likened to a grain of sand that enters an oysters shell. The grain of sand gets lodged in the soft flesh and the oyster cannot expel that grain of sand. So it forms mucus to surround the irritating grain of sand and as this process continues a pearl is formed which is a cancer to the oyster. The pearl is the cancer that will eventually kill the oyster, but the pearls purpose is to protect, ease the pain and irritation, and help the oyster to survive the initiating damaging event. We see the pearl but never the grain of sand. Important Learning Points: www.healyourcancer.org Page 42
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." -- Copernicus
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misinformation, it will probably be made up of other peoples opinions and ideas, you in fact may have no real understanding of your disease). But know that you want to experience the effects and results of the health process.
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List your present state of affairs - Your feelings. Your beliefs. What is important to you. What do you cherish. What do you despise. What are your symptoms. What do you need? What dont you need? 2. Know where you want to go. - Now know as much as you can about how you want to be. List the state of affairs you want in the future - Feelings, beliefs, qualities, emotions, behaviours, things you will be doing, see, feel and hear the results. Do the actions that take you there. - You will need to constantly update and modify the actions, to truly suit your purpose. Remember you have to take different actions if you want different results.
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This is how important I would want my goal to be if I had cancer I would rather die than not achieve my goal of excellent health. This would activate my brain to heal the disease at any cost, for death is the ultimate pain, it is the benchmark that our brain compares importance to. How many people continue daily suffering while accepting the inevitability of slowly dying from their disease? They are still living and to the brain this is preferable to death. As long as the death is prolonged and is not now, then the brain is happy to continue the status quo. Quality of life is not factored in. But if you genuinely would rather die, than not attain your goal of good health, then your brain and body has a choice to make, it is this or that. The this, is death and the that, is good health (dont use getting rid of your disease, for this is a concept, it is not a result. Being in a state of good health is something you can picture and quantify). Your brain is forced to choose between two complete scenarios, complete patterns, there are no grey areas and as it is programmed to always move away from pain then it has to attain the goal. It is an imperative, the brain must commit totally. 6. Urgency - Urgency magnifies importance. When do you want the healing to begin? ....................................... When do you want the healing to be completed by? .................................................... 7. Realistic - Is your goal realistic and reasonable? Do you believe it to be attainable? ............. Remember if another person has done it, it is possible for you to do it (given normal physical constraints). 8. Motivation - Does your goal excite you? ............. Does the thought of attaining your goal uplift you and fill you with passion? ............. Cross (hidden) Motivations. - What benefits are there to continuing the way you are? Do not judge them or dismiss them, simply list as many as possible no matter how silly or ridiculous it may seem. Cross motivations generally supply emotional needs, such as making one feel important or recognized or safe or a somebody. Resolve these hidden agendas. (These are one of the major impediments to the healing process and in fact some of these motivations are part of the disease process) www.healyourcancer.org Page 48
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16. 17. Persistence - Constantly take the actions and effort to do what is necessary. Space - Healing takes place in the empty space. Health fills the vacuum. Love the void and love will fill the void. Where can you create an internal space? ....................................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................................... 18. Meditation/Self Hypnosis - Communicate with your unconscious mind. Your unconscious mind is in control of the healing/illness system. The more you communicate with it the better. Fear - Eliminate (release) fear (not scaredness), have the courage to investigate your fears, and get help if necessary to release them. Do you fear yourself? ...................................................... If you do, for what purpose? ....................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................... 20. Love - Love really does heal all. This maybe an overdone clich, but nevertheless, it is absolutely true! If you feel love in every part of your body, you will heal. Discover what love is. Love is total unconditional acceptance. How was love demonstrated in your family as a child? What did you learn about love? ....................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................... Do you love yourself? ........... What do you have to do to earn love, acceptance? ....................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................... 21. Release - Release, work through feelings of resentment, helplessness, hatred, anger etc, these are all valid emotions, but they create chemical toxins when they are repressed, as do all repressed feelings. Page 50
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In the diagram above, when most people are diagnosed with cancer, they either accept their assumed fate, which is what they believe about the label cancer, or they seek to be cancer free. Being cancer free may entail fighting the cancer, beating the cancer etc which is seeing the cancer as an enemy. But, the goal really is to be healthy and this requires correct information of the complete picture. The problem is that you have cancer and you dont want to die. That sentence implies the cancer is the enemy but cancer is misunderstood, as I have said, the cancer is the symptoms resulting from attempting to heal an irritant. Instead of looking at the result you have now and thinking that is the cause of your problem (which is starting at point c), look at the bigger picture. The big picture is, that the pattern (of your life) is the cause of the result you have now, if you remove this pattern then you remove the cause. Sadly most people try to become cancer free by starting in the middle (point C) and this is totally natural and understandable. It is human nature to want to begin by being as close to the goal as you can, and this is more so when there is uncertainty and lack of information. www.healyourcancer.org Page 51
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As in the diagram, most people want to take the actions that lead down the mountain to their goal for they think they are at point C. When in actually fact they are at point A and the most important work is getting to point C. Point C is the actual moment that the cause is removed. Point C is where you make a decision, the most important decision in your life. This decision is actually a cluster of decisions. The decisions are Decide to have the goal, which is being in a healthy state. Which is the result of a different pattern of life. Decide to remove/dissolve/ eliminate or transform the present pattern of living. Which is the cause of the present results (cancer). Healing cant take place till the existing pattern becomes invalid and therefore stops operating. Point C is where this pattern, which is an all encompassing process of how you live, stops. You may recall in some movies where the newspaper printing presses are printing the next days paper and there is an urgent need to change the front page headline story. The editor hits the big red button (only to be used in extreme cases) and all the presses/conveyor belts stop. They quickly retype the front page (while this is going on the whole system has shut down, stopped working, the process has stopped, everything is in suspense/limbo) once they have completed the retyping, they hit the start button and the presses/conveyor belts fires back into life and a new story hits the streets with great ramifications for all concerned. Create a new story of your life but first hit that red button for nothing changes till you do! People heal from Cancer when they realize that their life (pattern) is killing them, they may not know it consciously but they know a dramatic change is necessary. They make dramatic changes and with or without them knowing it, they are changing the pattern. They know at some level that the pattern equals death. When you know the existing pattern equals death, then there is no resistance to stopping this pattern. Some people who healed say they surrendered themselves, what actually happens is that they dis-identify with their pattern and as we think we are the pattern (which we are not) they feel they let go of who they were. When they www.healyourcancer.org Page 52
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pattern is associated with death, it instantly become invalid and the process of following the instructions stop. Life then stops for a moment and a new set of instructions is adopted and the process of life starts again, a different story emerges. The new set of instructions will be more in tune and in harmony with the original set of instructions that you were conceived with. You would have kept these and had a life according to these instructions, except that you unfortunately had negative life changing experiences in your early years of life. Now you are just undoing these negative life changing experiences, not the experience itself, but the meaning and instructions you created from them. It is these harmful instructions that you have been living according to ever since, which get removed. So the 5 step Healing Cancer Process is primarily to get you to point C in the diagram for this is where there is little available information and secondarily what to do once you have reach point C, it is all downhill from there. Please be patient and do what is necessary to get to point C, do not be in a hurry to go from C to B, it is absolutely crucial that you arrive at C. See you in the 5 step Healing Process. Cheers Philip Martin
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elcome to Step 1. Of the 5 Step Process. This step is the starting point of your journey to health and it is probably an uncomfortable step. This first step is to understand and be aware of the pattern of your life. You may feel that you know who, what and where you, are for you have memories and can recall your life but do you understand why you think, feel, behave and function they way you do? You will probably just assume thats the way you are but in reality this is not who you are but the way you follow your pattern. This is the step most of us dont do but it is very important to do this step, as it is the first step in a process of five steps and like a conveyor belt or production line, the order is very important. Knowing where or who we are (our pattern) starts the process and begins to supply some of the missing information, which is necessary to complete the journey. Knowing ourself is initially resisted by most of us, for we have misconceptions about ourselves. We can have a very unfavourable image of ourself and we dont want to know about the darkness inside and yet knowing ourself is really a wonderfully www.healyourcancer.org Page 57
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Most of us have many more negative beliefs about ourselves then we realise and you can see how beliefs are worded as instructions. That is, they form and direct our behaviour. Many beliefs can also be called vows and these are very powerful beliefs that rule our lives whether we consciously want them to or not. We have no conscious control over these beliefs for the unconscious has accepted them (incorrectly as facts rather than assumptions) as true. In the list above I have mostly excluded absolutes such as always, and never. These absolutes make the belief much more potent. Look at the beliefs you have and see if they actually do contain absolutes. For example the last one in the list I am not like my father/mother would be I will never be like my father/mother! Can you see how this is a vow and would be a controlling principle in a persons life. The interesting thing about a vow like this is; that the person must create within themself the quality of the parent in order to not be like that. If the quality of the parent that is despised by the child is, say for example, abusive, then the child has to create that abusiveness, as the parent does it and then create the polar opposite in order for the ego to say I am not like my father/mother. This abusiveness can either be expressed externally or internally and this also creates the fear within the person that they may really be abusive, just like their parent. So they try harder to be the opposite and on and on the vicious cycle goes. The result is inner turmoil and a less than authentic life for they are not choosing how they want to feel and behave, for the vow is controlling their actions and they remain in a reactive state, constantly reacting to a past event.
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e are concerned with negative global beliefs as they, with negative Personal Beliefs are the beliefs the limit your life and create the patterns that create negative/limiting thoughts, actions and results. If you want to achieve different results then the pattern has to change. Eliminating or changing a negative belief will change a part of your pattern of living. The more that are eliminated or changed the more the controlling pattern is changed and therefore you will have different emotions, different thoughts, different actions and different results. The results will come effortlessly as the new pattern of your life will create those results, just as the results you have now have come effortlessly from your existing pattern. If your life is hard and a struggle, then you have created (from what you have been taught) that effortlessly because that is the purpose of your existing pattern. Remember that at every stage on your journey to health, that you remain in control, you may get scared that by changing your pattern, that you dont know how you will feel and think etc, and you therefore may feel that you will lose control. But you are in control of the process and you will continually gain more control, for you will choose and decide how You want to feel and behave, You will be www.healyourcancer.org Page 63
Some Global Beliefs Life is difficult. Love never lasts. People can't be trusted. People see my vulnerability. Life is short. Children should be seen and not heard. No pain - no gain. It's not nice to ask questions. You cant have/get what you want. Good children are quiet.
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What results might this lead to? Constant struggle. Failed relationships. Defensive attitude. Feel weak. Premature death. Lack of love for all. Pain. Stunted learning and evolution. Lack. Disappointment. Intolerance.
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Once again, how many of these beliefs have you added an absolute to? How many things have you vowed never to do or have. How many of these beliefs control your life, actions, thoughts and behaviour. As with personal beliefs, how are old are your global beliefs? Who may have taught them to you? And how do they affect your life?
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motional values are the states of being, that we feel, and place a value of importance on. And we place a value on the quality and the quality is a component of the states of being. These emotional states are a mini pattern and are a large part of our patterned blueprint and direct much of our behaviour and our emotional values coupled with our beliefs, dictate our decisions and behaviours. Our emotional values, their meaning and the significance attached to them are stored in the subconscious mind. Sometimes our conscious mind is aware of them; mostly the conscious mind is not. Our prime motivation in life is survival. Pain symbolises danger = anti survival, pleasure symbolises non dangerous = pro survival. Our nervous system is encoded to always avoid pain, this is the fight or flight response that is our most primitive and powerful driver.
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Then number them in order of importance - No 1. Being most important. To list them in a hierarchy of importance, pick the first value on your avoiding list and compare it with the next value. Which one is more important to avoid? Compare the answer to this question with the next value on the list and ask the same question. Repeat this till you get to the bottom of the list. The value that is the answer to the last question is your number 1. avoiding value. Repeat this process again starting at the top (leaving out your number 1. value) and you will discover your number 2. value. Continue this process until you have your 5 or 6 top avoiding values in order. Then do the same with your seeking values, asking which one is more important to have? Reflect upon your emotional values and the direction of your life. Some more Emotional Values
Arguments Arrogance Wealth Cheerfulness Blame Confrontation Spirituality Cowardice Contribution Giving Crime Courage
Happiness Greed Harmony Health Quietness Shame Respect Tardiness Righteousness Vanity Seriousness Vitality
Procrastination Motivation Peace Punctuality Slackness Confidence Safety Trust Hope Gratitude Compassion Hurt
Independence Godliness Gratefulness Learning Losing Judgemental Selfishness Loyalty Honour Failure Success Comfort
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This mix of emotional values that you have, can feel like This is who I am, when in fact they are formed mostly from experiences, that you had in childhood, your parents most likely taught you most of them. They become part of the pattern of your life but they are not you. They are the way you operate. Please write out your list of moving away and moving to values. You will need them later.
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ules, hmmm, rules are very important to us. We obey them, we get upset when we or others break them. Where did we get our own unique rules from? We inherit most of our rules from our childhood, some are rammed into us, some we adopt for fear of punishment and of course there is a lot of repetition attached to them. And as they say, repetition is the mother of all skills. Now there may be a place for rules and they may be beneficial but as a child we have no or little choice but to simply adopt the rules and as such they become an unconscious pattern. As an adult these rules dictate some of our behaviour and so rob us of choice and free will. That is, we abide by the rules without thinking and we accept the rules as justified (because usually we felt pain of some sort if we broke them). Because we blindly obey them, we feel disempowered by them, for it seems that they control us and we feel little and powerless. There is much to be written about rules, but here you just need to discover what your rules are.
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imitations are things that limit your life expression. We all have incredible potentials and possibilities but we deny them, not see them and fear them. The reason is that we have limitations that conflict with our potentials and possibilities. These limitations are active, that is to say, that they create actions and behaviours, whereas your potentials and possibilities are dormant. They are there for your use, if you want to use them and we all have enormous untapped potential and possibilities. And though you are in control of them and they are your tools, you use only a minute amount of them. You can use these potentials and you will need to discover and use them to speed up your healing journey, but you can only access them if you have the desire, permission and the right to utilise them. But what is preventing their use right now? Your self imposed limitations and these limitations control you! What are some limitations?
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Intertwined with meanings, in the human experience there is vastly more misinformation than correct information. The undercurrent driver of many of our emotions, actions, behaviours, destination and life.
Please write out and list what limitations that you have, dont worry, we all have many, so list them. Look at all areas of your life and where you have limitations that prevent you experiencing an excellent life. You may like to pick a few particular limitations that you would like to overcome.
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e live our life according to the patterns that we have formed early in life, with the odd change along the way. We may have many, many limitations that hinder our progress. We are aware of some of these limitations and many we are unaware of. It is through the use of our resources that we struggle our way forward through the mass of obstacles that we unknowingly place in our way. It is the balance between our limitations and our resources that determines our progress. Just for a moment it may be nice to imagine how resourceful we would be, if we didnt have any of these limitations. How easy, effortless life would be. You may though, start to feel the beginning of fear many of us have, the fear of our own potential. Yes many fear their potential. What good does it serve anyone to limit and fear your own potential? As you are getting to know where you are at, it is important to list your resources.
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urprisingly, you may have difficulty with this question. What do you want? Unless you are absolutely clear and specific about what you want how can you get it? The more quality time you spend on this question, the better the outcome.
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n important part of what do you want, is also knowing what you dont want. By knowing what you dont want completes the picture of what do you want.
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he things that are important to you, partly define who you are or more accurately your perception of who you are.
Answer the questions below about this future you. Describe completely and write out.
Why is it important to What has to happen in you? order for you to experience or know it?
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here are many things that we feel we have to do or must do or cant do, by having absolutes such as these in our pattern of living, we rob from our sense of self control. These absolutes form part of our automatic behaviour. Also by having these absolutes, we have lost the right to be able to do these things and lost the right to choose. It is not a question of whether these things are good or bad or right or wrong but whether we are mature enough to make conscious choices in the present moment. The less ability we have to make choices and decisions, the more we feel we lack control. Ought to and should do have a similar but lesser effect.
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Please print out and complete. It may seem petty to be answering all these questions but it is imperative to discover where you are at. You wont fully discover where you are at, but by completing this first section of the journey, then you will know enough to be able to achieve your goal, much more easily. This preparation is essential.
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his is the last step in this first section. Write a story of your life. Our life is a story and by writing a story you will access much more information. The story can be as long as you want but remember, this is part of your journey to health and healing. The more effort you put in, the greater the results you will get. Please do not proceed to section 2 until you have fully completed section 1. The shortcut is in getting to the starting point, which is at the completion of section 1. This is the step nearly everyone misses and because of this they have such great resistance to healing. By completing all of step 1. You are accessing your existing pattern of living and remember, that healing is the changing or transforming of your existing pattern to a new and better pattern. The new pattern will lead to the achievement of your goals. This new pattern will not have the irritants and processes that lead to or support cancer and so you will be healthy and in charge of your life. Cheers, www.healyourcancer.org Page 100
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nce you have established where you are, which is a fixed place in time and space. You then need to establish where you want to go, which is a different fixed place in time and space. It is in the future for you are not there (yet). Then you find and follow the suitable directions to get you there. This is the process of all journeys. So three overall steps 1. Know where you are. 2. Know where you are going and 3. How to get there (have the right map and the directions). Then you simply follow the directions and you will arrive at your destination. The start (where you are) and the finish (where you will be) are stable, fixed places. The journey is the actions and movement from one to the other. This is where all the work and effort is done. But you can see that by not knowing where the start and finish are, the work and effort will be to no avail.
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Are you prepared to change? Will you smash through your comfort circle? What is preventing change?
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That is the end of this section. How are you going? And what have you discovered? Please reflect on this. See you soon.
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As stated previously, A and B are fixed stable states. They are immovable objects. It is important to see that A and B are two of infinite possible experiences/expressions of your life. They are like two totally different houses, that you can live in but you can only live in one at any time. A is the experience/ expression of you at the present time and B is the experience/ expression of you at a future time, though you can have it now. A is the easiest to have, for this is the state (house) that you are in today, it is a result of the pattern you have been living since you were about five years of age. So there is a massive amount of habit and conditioning. So this pattern is an automatic process that just keeps on going, like a snowball rolling down a mountain. Though you may have been told you have terminal disease, and therefore a premature death is looming. And that death, is a result of the pattern rolling on forward regardless. It is this forward motion of the pattern, which prevents most people recovering and healing. Many, many people have had incredible or seemingly miraculous recoveries and how did they do it? Mostly likely without their knowing, they stopped the motion of the pattern. They may attribute the change (healing) to actions that they took. But they took these actions after they stopped the pattern. These miraculous recoveries only seem miraculous because we do not know, understand or see the pattern. Ill come back to a recurring theme. Misinformation is the cause of all suffering and correct information is the cure. www.healyourcancer.org Page 119
Back to decide: Actions are motions and you want to move from A to B. Without the motion you will remain at A. Now no motion can begin without a decision! Decisions are your greatest source of power. No decision = no result. The power of decisions is unfathomable. Look at any great achievement anyone has ever made and you will see it is because of a decision was made. Once the decision is made, even if the person doesnt know how to achieve or know what to do, the steps and actions start to fall into place. The decision is the guiding principle. A decision is the beginning of a pattern. Decisions always create patterns. We make decisions all the time though. Yes and those decisions are in harmony with our existing pattern and most of those decision, we dont even really become aware of. But what about when we make important decisions? What makes them important? They are important because they imply a possible change in direction of a part of our pattern. The bigger the change in direction the more importance we place on it. Why do we make it important? because we dont want to change direction! This is our resistance to change. Now, these decisions and the important ones we have made, have only veered our pattern, has only changed the direction slightly. The bigger the change you want, means the bigger deviation you have to make and you are programmed to be resistant to change. But having information about how your mind process choices and decisions will enable you to avoid this resistance. Remember we will using the path of least resistance.
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Please have an unbiased mind and dont look at this as personal to you. Be curious how the rest of mankind behaves, for I am talking about how the mind operates at a deep level in all of us. How through evolution mankind has the same wiring/programming if you like. It is easier to believe cancer is something you have caught etc and therefore you are unlucky and to be healthy then just remove the cancer. This means you are at A and have this baggage called cancer. When the cancer is removed, killed etc then you are still at A. This is how most people perceive the situation and of course it makes sense and seems the easiest way to deal with the problem. This simplistic perception has resulted in untold premature death and suffering. When you take drastic action to remove or kill the cancer, does the person then make changes in their perception, do they feel that they have a second chance and unknowingly change their pattern. Some do, some do not. My point is that the healing takes place in the mind, which is connected to every part of the body, and with a change in the overall automatic pattern. Some people make this change after undergoing surgery etc, some because they believe the surgery etc will work. If they had surgery (which is one part of the equation surgery = cancer free) then they have to produce the result, which is cancer free. The unconscious then is compelled to produce the result and so it automatically changes the pattern. If you truly believe any agent/action will produce a cancer free state, then the taking of that agent/action will have to produce a change of pattern. But sadly the percentage of survival/recovery rates and quality of life is not as good as it could be. By believing cancer is something that you have caught etc, then you are not responsible for it, and if you are not responsible for it, you will not take ownership of it. It is something foreign to you. And as such, something foreign to you has to take responsibility to remove it. By foreign, I mean external to you. We must never forget that all healing is done by our own self healing system. Nothing outside of you can heal anything in you. External things and people can only assist the healing system. Only you can heal you. This is an absolutely inescapable fact. That is why it is important to take responsibility for your healing and recovery. By leaving it to others you are limiting your self-healing system. By the same token if you believe the cancer is caused by external causes then your self healing system is limited.
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If you do, then you have to make that decision and realize the power involved. You are proceeding, moving forward, direction is changing. Proceeding where? Towards B, towards marking the decision to leave A and arrive at B. How do we make decisions? Ultimately the brain only ever chooses between two things at a time. This means the brain choices either this or that. When we have multiple choices say five options and lets call them 1,2,3,4 and 5, the brain chooses between 1 and 2, and if the choice picked between those two is i.e. 2. Next the brain chooses between 2 and 3. In this example 3 is discarded and so we now have a choice between 2 and 4. We decide on 2 again and we now choose between 2 and 5. The winner of this choice and lets say again it is 2, so we choose 2 out of the possible five options. We may think we had all five options available and then picked the best, but in fact we only ever evaluated two options at a time. The brain can only ever evaluate two options at a time. It is the sheer speed it does this computing, that enables us to come to quick decisions. Imagine you (A) getting worse if you dont change & leading to eventual consequences. Now would you rather die than not change??? This is a strange question, if we have a choice between A and B many of us will sub consciously choose A because of the resistance I have talked about. The B can be a bit or a lot unknown. The A has enormous conditioning involved, also your beliefs will not want to change. If you look at figure 2, you can see that if you change some of patterns on option 2 to those of option 1, you will make progress to B. You can take a limiting belief and transform it and your overall pattern will change a little. The more limiting beliefs you change, the more progress you will make. The more parts of option 2 you change to those on option 1 the greater the progress. However there is a shorter way, some will take it and others wont, it is up to you. This way guarantees that there is no sitting on the fence, it ensures commitment. It is a powerful decision and will probably be the most beneficial decision you will make in your life. If you want the surest way to health (B) then consider this decision. Rather than deciding between A and B directly, decide between A and death. Yes, if you can generate enough pain on this path that you are on, that is, imagining making no changes, and you keep proceeding on this path. Feel what it feels like, to arrive near the end of your days and know that you didnt take the opportunity to change. Feel any negativity and pain increasing, feel the total lack of www.healyourcancer.org Page 124
this decision, whether they know it or not. For ultimately health/healing is the result of deciding this life (the old pattern) or that life (the new pattern which has good health or cancer free at its core). This decision can only be made by you, no one else can make this decision for you. This is part of the power involved, you have to take total responsibility for the decision. This empowers you for (if you chose death over the previous life and then new life over death) you truly have made the most powerful decision a human being can make. You are now in control of your life and existence. Take credit for it, for you deserve it. Next: step 5 The actions.
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occurring. How much stress occurs in your day? What about stress that occurs beneath your awareness? Old stresses that have not been nullified yet. Ongoing stress that goes round in a loop without solution. This is a huge problem and an enormous amount of energy is wasted here and is where much collateral physical damage occurs. Your new healing desire, goal, pattern. How much energy is left over for this? I will look at time now: Each day you have a limited and fixed amount of time, you do not get an extra second. You can only use what you have. If you take time from other activities and spend that time on your healing, you will shorten the distance between now and when you discover that you are in excellent health. You are in control of your use of your time. Realize the incredible value of time. So what actions do you need to take: in no particular order and of course there may be many more. As you are a unique individual there will be unique actions. But if you have successfully completed the previous sections and the decision you made is total, then the result will come. 1. Time a limited supply invest your time wisely. How? Ask yourself Is the time I am using now being used to attain my goal? 2. Delete or minimize stress from your life. Stress uses precious energy. A disease is simply a process that results in massive stress. How? Practice daily meditation. Take meditation classes. Meditation has many benefits. It has an inward focused direction which naturally produces better communication between all parts of the body and mind. This subtle benefit is like the power of a river or ocean gently creating its course and yet unstoppable. It eliminates stress and tension and so there is more energy for healing. It is surprising how many cancer suffers go into remission if they take an extended holiday and the cancer returns when they are immersed back into their old life (and old stresses).
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10. Discover what cancer really is Read the section about this. Man fears the unknown and though you may fear dying from cancer, you also magnify that fear, if the cause of the cancer is unknown to you. The fear and uncertainty that missing information creates, causes enormous emotional stress. Take responsibility By taking responsibility, you are empowering yourself and the new pattern. When you assume responsibility, you have the power to control and to create your future. Evaluate what is important You and your goal of good health is the most important thing in the universe. Many people have a problem with this one. But you do everybody, including yourself, a disservice if you do not realize that you occupy a unique space in the universe, which only you have access to. I occupy a unique space in the universe that only I have access to and if I do not cherish and know that this space that I occupy, is the most important space in the entire universe for me and that I am the most important person in the universe for me, then I would be insane. Each person on the planet has to be the most important person in the world for them. You cant be anybody else. If you realize that you are the most important person in the world for you. Then you will realize how important everyone is. There is no such thing as one person being better or worse than an other. You might like to put 1 or 2 other things as important and then discard everything else. Everything that you decide is important robs from the healing. Live in the now Living in the present moment, being in the now and live this day only, is an age old wisdom that is essential for a happy and healthy life. Though in our incessantly busy society, this wise tenet of living is sadly missing. It seems very difficult for many to grasp the simplicity and practice this cornerstone of correct (for want of a better word) living. When we are not living in the now, then we are not being authentic to ourselves and we are not in tune or in harmony with ourself and we become even more immersed in the illusionary world. When we are living in the now, then we have less worry and we are calmer and more effective for we have more clarity. When you are living and therefore experiencing the present moment, your mind is clearer and calmer and the busyness is quietened. We adopt busyness and doing, doing, doing, to compensate for the lack of connection to ourself and this busyness and constant doing is an attempt to
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nothing, insignificant and unable to use the power wisely. This shows our ignorance for that awesome power is at our beck and call, it is there for our use. It has no identity or will of its own, it is our power, it can not take over or choose to do anything. It is us that does the choosing. We feel inadequate with this power and yet only by using this power do we become adequate. This is a monumental mistake that most people make, they see themselves as separate from that power for they see themselves as separate from the body and the power is produced from the body. For those people that achieve incredible success in any endeavour, how do they do it? They may or may not know how, but they use their power and because they use their power they (their ego) feels it is the ego that is powerful and so they do not fear the power. The ego is definitely powerful for it is the only controller or user of that power, the ego and power (and potentials) become joined, become one and these people are normal ordinary people though you may see them as extraordinary for they do extraordinary things, it seems easy to them and you may believe you could never achieve those things. For these extraordinary people are in such a small minority and you see yourself as in the majority, then you are only aware of your limitations rather than your potential. You can heal from your cancer (which is a misconception for a start) which is, that you can be as healthy as you Want. You have access to this power and potential at your fingertips, you know it is there, yes you do, but you may not want to know it. You may be fearful of that power, you may feel that you will get lost, you may feel that power will overwhelm you. And all children experience this, you, when you were very young felt the unlimited force of your power, as it is always there, as your ego was immature your body had to put a damper, a limiter on it, till you can use it wisely. This limiter is fear and it works brilliantly. Think of a learner driver trying to master a race car before he/she has even attempted to learn in a more docile car, how dangerous would that be? So fear only allows a small percentage of that power to be used and as we dont have access to it, we then naturally feel small and impotent and inadequate and so we never mature enough to be able to use that power, we still feel like a small child when we are faced with that power. That is we regress to a small child when we try to access the power. And the fear of the power grows and as it is a negative feedback loop, we and the power
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such as I am unlovable or I am worthless. With this subconscious belief it is more painful to achieve love than not have love. Having love does not fit the equation of- I am worthless = therefore I am unworthy of being loved. If you achieve love, your unconscious mind would have to get rid of it, in order to be in harmony with the belief. To have love, keep it, enjoy the love and be in harmony with the love, what do you have to be? - A somebody with the belief of I am somebody = I am loveable = I am loveable = I can have love/loving. I am worthy = I am worthy of being loved To have or feel what you desire, you have to be the person who is in harmony with those desires. You have to believe that you deserve the desire, you have a right to have the desire and you have permission to have the desire.
Our mind operates as a series of equations, this = that, everything balances. In the diagram below it can be seen that one can have the conscious desire to have love and to avoid rejection. Now if we achieve love and escape rejection then this would be great but lets look at the criteria we can have to attain love. In this case the condition or criteria to achieving having love; is having the perfect partner. This condition is usually out of conscious awareness and the condition is placed on the value by the subconscious belief of I am unlovable or I am worthless or the deeper belief of I am a nobody/nothing. This particular condition allows the conscious mind to seek and move towards love but guarantees that the effort is in vain. This condition seeks to prove the point that the person is unlovable /nobody/nothing. There is comfort in this for the unconscious, for it feels that it is being truthful and acting according to its beliefs.
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The vicious cycle continues with the person feeling rejected or unloved and henceforth heroically jumps headlong into another doomed attempt. Why is this person doomed to fail? Because the criteria necessary to have love i.e. I have to find my perfect partner has the intention of failure. Is there such a thing as a perfect partner? Is there anybody out there without flaws? Perfect sounds nice and romantic and so the conscious mind doesnt realise the trap. It can search but can never find! What is the solution to this dilemma? How can we have what we desire in life? 1. 2. We have to be aware of the belief systems that we hold, for instance I am a nobody and its my fault. We then split the nobody/its my fault, by recognising the fault lies outside of you, you are not at fault or faulty. Remove the fault from yourself.
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3. We then proceed to discover the real truth, underneath that belief system, that we are a magnificent human being - an expression of our core. Transforming the I am a nobody/nothing into I am a magnificent Human Being.
The nobody is actually like the starting position in a board game. We are only there for a moment then we throw the dice and move forward. Without the nobody or start position, we cant play the game. The nobody/start position has all the unlimited potential of the game, it is not a position to be feared, but cherished, we only pass through it once. Time to let it go, for we have already thrown the dice and are now playing the game of life. 4. Design the seeking values so that they fit your desires and make the conditions so that they enable you to easily and constantly have the values. Choose what would be the most beneficial seeking value to have at no 1. Would it benefit you to have health or peace of mind as your top value? What seeking values would benefit you the most? Design the avoiding values so that they assist your seeking values and any others make them unimportant, difficult to feel or happen or remove them altogether. For example: if you have health as your no 1. Seeking value then giving up/ lack of persistence may be useful at the top of your avoiding values. Seek help and guidance when stuck. Remain in charge of your evolution and progress. Be prepared to fully know yourself, until you truly accept yourself. You are a magnificent human being. Please do not settle for less than you are. Knowing ourself is the key to enlightenment and sages throughout history have implored us to know thyself.
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relationship and the unknown aspect of the event to disappear. This unknown component, this cant understand why they did what they did, is the result of an unknown contract between the two of you being broken. The contract was for the ways you treated each other and behave. You have lived up to your part of the contract but the other person did not. You feel that they have wronged you or betrayed you. You may feel stupid for trusting and having faith in the other person to uphold the contract or you may feel that there is something wrong with you as you are feeling the hurt and pain. You have taken it personal and you may say of course, how can it not be personal? by personal I mean you are letting it affect your identity and self image. You are victimizing yourself and as our egos are vulnerable, you feel more vulnerable and it is this vulnerability that deep down you are trying to protect against. And so how do we guard and protect from getting hurt again, we keep the hurt as a reminder, while we are experiencing the hurt, we naturally will be reluctant to forgive and mend the relationship (if it is worth mending). So you feel you are protecting from being hurt again. To forgive is to release the attachment to the hurt, the anger and the pain. It is to accept that a breach of contract has occurred, it is to accept that you have felt hurt and betrayed and that may have been valid, but that you are now in control. By taking control you stop feeling vulnerable and you stop being a victim. The other person made a mistake and is human. How you want to proceed is up to you, but by forgiving you are ending the process of continually hurting yourself. 18. Love Love heals! Love is greatly misunderstood and though it has been said over and over that love heals, it is absolutely true. It is not just an airy fairy tale. Love is not to be confused with romantic love which is more about passion, desire and lust. Love, if you like can be seen as an energy and it is of the highest frequency. So that when love is experienced in the body, then the cells in the body resonate with that frequency. Love is the highest nourishment to any living thing and cells become healthier in an environment of love. So what is love and how do you experience it? Love is the acceptance of the connection between things. We all live in an environment and we are all surrounded by air. We all breathe the same air and this air flows into
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agreement and fitting in, then whether the subject matter is correct or not. The minority is more likely to consider their options and the majority is more likely to simply be part of the crowd and not take responsibility. It means they cant be blamed if they are wrong. With healing cancer, always consider the alternatives and be very wary of accepting any point of view, especially because everyone else thinks so. You need to think at a deeper level than the shallow thinking of the majority. By discovering your own answers and making your own choices and decisions, you will become more the person you are and also more in control of yourself. The mind like all things in nature seeks the path of least effort, though this greatly helps our efficiency, sometimes there is a price to pay. This efficiency easily becomes laziness when it comes to thinking, choosing and deciding. And as thinking, choosing and deciding are the greatest resources and power that you have, you need to use these tools wisely and not lazily and just follow the crowd. 20. Get uncomfortable Mankind is programmed to seek comfort, for two reasons 1. To abide by the law of economy of effort, (energy is the fuel of the universe and conservation of energy underpins everything in the universe) 2. Comfort represents that we are safe and surviving, and we seek comfort as a reward to ensure survival of the species. The pattern that we live our life by is deemed pro-survival (if you have cancer, then your pattern is obviously no longer pro survival, it is littered with misinformation) and as it is deemed pro survival, you may be very comfortable with your pattern, no matter how much suffering results. The time for comfort is when you have returned to health. In the meantime be prepared to be uncomfortable because change is uncomfortable and drastic change is absolutely necessary. At some point a decision will be made, do you want to be comfortable or healthy? Having cancer already causes discomfort and you will naturally resist doing things that create more discomfort, but these added actions that create discomfort, are less uncomfortable than the symptoms of cancer and they end in rejuvenation and relief. Be grateful Whether you are in excellent health or have a terminal illness, being grateful for all things in your life is necessary, for a happy and satisfying life. When you have returned to health you will be grateful for the experience, for you will have leaned much and you will feel a much better
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with no way out, you will flee, as fleeing gives you the best chance of survival. This is what fear is designed for, to maximize your survival in life threatening situations. It is to be used only in life threatening situations as it extracts an enormous toll on the body and after you are safe the body has to neutralize and remove all the adrenalin. Now the part of the brain that triggers the fight/flee response, which is the hindbrain (it is the first part of the brain to form) and it is also referred to as the ancient brain, as it has little changed since cave man days. This part of the brain when triggered overrides all other parts of the brain, this is survival mode. And how is this ancient part of the brain triggered into action? By an electrical signal, when an electrical impulse is received by this part of the brain, then it is switched on. This electrical signal is produced whenever a threat is seen, or experienced through our senses and here is the problem, back in ancient days this system would work just fine, for ancient man had a very small conscious mind and it had little significance, but as we evolved, the conscious mind has grown considerably and with it the ability to think, to imagine, to perceive and assume etc. So if we think or assume that we are in danger, this then triggers the senses, that is, the senses receive a signal that we are in danger and the electrical switch in the hindbrain is triggered. So we react to an assumption or belief, as if we are going to be attacked by a lion for example. The hindbrain has no way to know the difference, for it reacts to an electrical signal. It is either on or off and it should remain off except for an emergency life or death situation. It has often been reported that public speaking is the most widespread fear. People are terrified of it. And of course if you fear it, then you will have the same experience as if you were attacked by a lion. Your body responds just the same and so you feel justified in having your fears for you suffer the consequences. The object of your fear then becomes an anchor for fear, so just as you would be crazy to confront a lion you wont confront the object of your fear for the brain thinks you would die. So how to eliminate fear. 1. Know consciously that you will not die. Who has ever died from public speaking? there is no danger. 2. Realise that you are safe and say the words I am safe, this turns off the signal to the hindbrain, 3. Discover that your fears are false, how? Fear is ultimately a lack of trust in yourself, the more fear you have, then the more distrust you
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are brainwashed from the moment we are born to be a victim of circumstances and to be like sheep. In this regard we are truly a herd animal and as in everything there are costs and benefits but the costs are too high if you have cancer. One way you can look at being a victim is to see it as not taking responsibility for our own thoughts, choices, decisions, actions and behaviour. Being responsible means knowing and taking ownership of our own actions, that is to say, I did such and such because I did, as opposed to they made me do it or I did it because they did ... I am sure you have had childhood experiences where your mother or father said you make me so cross, or I got angry at you because you did such and such. Can you recall that happening? It is easy us human beings to see things this way because our conscious mind operates in a linear fashion, that is, this causes that which causes that. This is the way that we (our egos) think, we look at cause and effect in all things but when it comes to our actions we do have to realise (for our own benefit) that in all things that we do, we have a choice. The fact is that rarely, we exercise that power; this is the only power that we (the ego) have. Our power is that we can think, choose and decide
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want, think about and then focus on thinking what you want to achieve, then your thoughts are changing the pattern and you will have different feelings and these feelings will make it easier to continue having your new train of thoughts. What thoughts and feelings are appropriate for your journey? 1. Any positive thought or feeling that makes you feel good. 2. Get a clear visualization of you in a healthy state doing the things you like to do. See yourself going to the doctors and getting the all clear, look at the test results and see the shocked faces of the doctors as they express the bewilderment of how you have healed so fast. As you visualise, include movement as in a movie rather than a still picture. The visualization is then a story and this has more power. Feel how wonderful you feel and feel all the sensations that you feel, having succeeded, acknowledge that you have healed yourself from something that you once thought of as difficult or impossible and what are you going to do with this new information? Look at what benefits or possibilities there are now for you. See all your visualizations in the present, in the now, as if it is already achieved. Accept it as real for the unconscious mind has concept of time, there is no past and there is no future there is only now. To the unconscious mind, there are no concepts, no meanings and no time, what is, is and when you place a desire with conviction and importance and in the present moment as if it is already achieved, then the unconscious mind accepts this and there is a disharmony, tension and stress as there are now two realities and there are two what iss, and there can only be one. The unconscious mind has to neutralise the disharmony and the tension and the stress and how does it do this? It has to make only one of those realities a reality and which one is of most value? The one that You have placed the most importance on and so the unconscious mind transforms the existing situation into the new reality (your desire). If you desire becoming healthy or see the health in the future (which is not now) then there is no tension to ease and so the unconscious will do nothing new.
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object of the gratefulness is important and worthy of having and receiving. 5. Feel compassion and empathy for others, as this awakens the deep nature of our being. This awakens our humanness, as we acknowledge the humanness of others. As we are compassionate and have empathy for others, acknowledge that you have compassion and empathy for all parts of yourself. 6. Think about what is important now, and what is important? At the top of the list at number 1. is you, can you make this an absolute fact? I have spoken earlier about the importance of this. You are the only person that is you, nowhere in the entire span of mankind has there ever been a more magnificent human being, you are responsible for your behaviour but you are not your behaviour. You may feel it is arrogant or vain in accepting that you are truly a magnificent human being but realise this, at a very deep level you may be a little bit aware of your magnificence and you may have been taught that you are not magnificent but you are truly magnificent. See this magnificence in all those around you, look beyond the facade that they present and see the magnificence there, look past their behaviours and see the magnificence there. So you have a duty to you, to place you at the top of your importance list and fix it there so that it will always be at no 1. What is next on your list, loved ones? By the way, can you really love them fully if you dont love yourself? What is at number three on your list of importance? Use number four on your list for temporary things and delete them when they are finished. This is a big enough important list, you really dont need any more distractions in your life. With all the extra things you may want to place as important, weigh them up, are they, as or more important than you? For each one robs from you, you may not realise this but each extra important thing robs from your importance and robs from your time. With every positive thought, you will generate a positive feeling and with every positive feeling you will generate a positive thought and each time you do, you will eliminate stress and create a stressless pattern, an irritantless pattern.
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ith the 21st century already here, with its never ending array of stresses. We can be forgiven for not having the time to focus on our own personal journey. Our relationship with time is one of our major sources of these stresses. It is the inescapable boundary of life sooner or later we die, our life ends. Death marks the end of opportunities thats it. We did what we did and cannot do anymore. The boundary of death is always at the back of our minds for we are aware that it forever looms closer, and we fear it above all else. How often do we feel, we are not doing enough and that there is not enough time? Yet our technology is continuously increasing efficiency in all areas of life. So why do so many of us feel we cannot keep up with the pace of time or that there isnt enough of it? Time is indestructible, it passes at the same constant rate regardless and it cares not for you or I. It is the one unchanging inescapable thing there is, and yet it is constantly changing, second by second. It is like a moving train, sure in its path, straight and true and no longer where it was a moment ago. If you are on the train (going at the same rate as time), you are comfortable. It is easy. If, on the other hand, you missed the train and are running after it (not going at the same rate as time), you are uncomfortable. It is hard work. The train moves forward regardless, and all you can do is to keep running after it.
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As the gap widens you become more despondent, until you lose sight of the train altogether and you feel lost. I repeat, time moves on regardless, seconds slip into minutes, and the minutes into hours, and of course the hours into days. And we wake up one morning to discover the distant future has arrived. We spend the final years reminiscing about what might have been, regretting all the missed opportunities, depressed in the knowledge that life wasnt much; just a lot of mediocrity. How many of us are going to reach our final days and have a sense that it was a waste of time? At the end of our life, it is too late to change things, to do the things we could have done. The clock that is ticking away the moments of our life does not care about who succeeds or who fails. It cares not about winners or losers and it cares not for excuses or reasons. Moving at the same speed of time is one of the keys to a successful, happy and healthy life. So, how do you get back on that train? What is the speed of time? Time is a conundrum for many and is one of the many paradoxes of life. The passing of time is central to all things and it is easy to see time as linear and flowing from the past to the present and onward to the future. We look at all things with a backdrop of time and so time is like the canvas that we paint the picture of our life on and we of course measure all movement with time. I ask you to move at the same speed of time, and what speed is that? 0 mph, that is time has no speed. Time is a construct that enables the mind to organize information into sectors. Without this construct of time the ego could not function and would not be able to maintain its separate identity. Much can be written about time and I will leave that for another day. The concept of time though is very useful for us and to negate the problem of stress as a result of this time concept, spend your time in the Now. This means appreciating this moment now. The Now is the experience of what you are experiencing without reference to past and future, and when you do this, time disappears and as a result, fear and stress disappears. It is easy to experience being in the Now when you are alone in nature and just appreciating the beauty around you. You allow time to stand still and be the experience. The experience of you moves forward. In your normal days activities allow your attention to be attuned to what you are doing, focus on enjoying the moment, allow the past and future to be
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result of being out of touch with this reality. An excellent book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle will help you understand this very important principle. Living in the now is extremely beneficial for everyone and even more so for those wanting to heal. Who we are is our choice and as our experience of life is the result of our choices, we can choose each day, each moment the experience we choose. Without the power of choice we are nothing. When is it time to choose? Please take the time to do this exercise. Sit quietly with eyes closed, be fully aware of your next five breaths and reflect on the following question. If you had only 24 hours of time left, what would you do with that time?........ Now, again sit quietly with eyes closed, be fully aware of your next five breaths and reflect on this question. If you had an extra (bonus) hour and a half after that 24 hours, what would you do with that time? ....... Again sit quietly with eyes closed, be fully aware of your next five breaths and reflect on this question. What do you want to do with the next ten years?............ When does the next ten years begin?........ To create success in any endeavour, we have to create a space in our time, in the time that we have. That is, to have the time to do the actions that are necessary for success, we have to take that time from other actions that we are doing. If we place a value on time and time is extremely valuable for who wouldnt want more time, we may think differently about what we do with our time. Throughout time mankind has endeavoured to unravel the mysteries of the world. He has sought to understand himself and all things outside himself. Questioning always all things. When we are in harmony with our essence, time is our friend and when we are in disharmony and ignorant of our essence then time is our enemy. When we are in harmony with our essence we flow with
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tress is simply a signal that produces a reaction. A reaction denotes an action and therefore movement and as such the use of energy and the effects or waste of that action. The act of breathing is a stress, it takes energy and there are by products produced which in turn have to be dealt with. Now, our bodies are wonderful machines (for lack of a better word) that have evolved to the point of truly sophisticated and well tuned functioning. Though we are unaware of all the stresses involve in our normal functioning, it pays to realize that just to maintain our health, the body undergoes continual stress and the reactions to whatever the stresses are. The reactions are to delete/resolve the stress so that the body maintains its harmony with the environment. Any extra stress puts an extra strain or burden on our body and resources have to be rerouted to delete/resolve the new stress. This is a part of the healing process that occurs continuously. The body is always seeking balance/homeostasis. If we have a particularly active day then we may need more rest and sleep at night to compensate. But if we continue daily with being extra active then our body will make changes to compensate. You will see that athletes will gain extra muscle, their heart may enlarge and of course they will be fitter. The point is that the body adapts, if we dont adapt by doing less activity then the body adapts accordingly. The end result is that stress is deleted or minimized and homeostasis achieved. But www.healyourcancer.org Page 159
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motions, energy in motion. When we are experiencing positive emotions then naturally we are producing positive energy that every cell in our body experiences. And when we experience negative emotions then every cell experiences negative energy. Some people have cured themselves from terminal disease from just by immersing themselves with humour, watching old comedy shows and movies. This will work as it changes the perceptions and the old pattern of living. The positive energy from laughing and experiencing humour will dissolve some old negative beliefs. Every cell in the body will be receiving nourishment in the form of positive energy which means there is a significant decrease in stress levels. So laughter is highly beneficial and well worth experiencing. It seems normal to have negative emotions and so it is, if we have them sparingly and we resume feeling good. But in our present day culture negativity is the norm. Negativity is acceptable and we are continually bombarded by the media with negativity. Negativity creates more negativity and positivity creates more positivity so it makes sense to avoid negativity. It is rare to see a happy, positive and enthusiastic person these days and it may seem that something is wrong with them, if we see a person smiling for no www.healyourcancer.org Page 161
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ur brain is an amazing bio-computer and it certainly holds and processes an astonishing amount of information. This information is filed and formed into patterns which enable us to proceed and evolve through life. With the enormity of information that the brain must process, coupled with the infinite possibilities that this information can lead to, the brain has to be efficient so that we can live. If at every step in the process, that we call living, we had to select from all possible combinations, we would be unlikely to take any actions at all, as the brain would be completely occupied analyzing the infinite possible outcomes. So to efficiently process the constant stream of information and therefore decide upon and carry out an action in response, the brain must delete the majority of possibilities. But how can we do this effectively? By what criteria do we decide what to delete? The solution is beliefs. To achieve efficiency the brain uses beliefs as comparable criteria for new information. We simply delete any information or possible responses if they in any way conflict with a held belief. After deleting the vast mass of incoming information, the brain can then choose from the tiny fraction of responses remaining. Despite greatly increasing processing efficiency, www.healyourcancer.org Page 165
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most of our time is still spent continually deleting information. The power of deletion is what has enabled the human species to develop such awesome mental complexity whilst maintaining functionality, reflected in the advancement of civilisation. Beliefs are indeed a powerful tool. There is, however a price to pay for this efficiency. Beliefs are used to delete vast amounts of possibilities; therefore they are by nature, limitations. The power of a belief is the concept that it is true. If it is true, we do not have to question it. It is a template and any information that doesnt fit the template is immediately discarded (and therefore that information is labelled as untrue). Once we assume a belief, all incoming and outgoing information is filtered against the belief. We do not question the validity of the belief. Often they can seem ridiculously illogical (to others or others have beliefs that seem ridiculous to us), and yet we simply just accept our own beliefs as truth. Beliefs therefore are severely limiting and blinding and often sabotage the persons life and future. If your life is not a wonderful life, then you have limiting beliefs that prevent a wonderful life from occurring. The quality of life you have is directly equivalent to your beliefs. The quality of life you have is dependent on your beliefs, not by circumstances. We certainly need to have a greater understanding of beliefs. Have you ever questioned why you have the beliefs you have? Do you treat your beliefs as absolute, unchangeable facts? If so Why? You, probably like most people, have awful beliefs that you hold about yourself. Beliefs that guarantee you pain and rob your life of fulfilment. Considering this, you may feel that you want to change your beliefs and thereby improve your experience and quality of life. It is common and perfectly reasonable to want to change your life for the better. When going about changing ones life, the most common mistake people make, is attempting to fix what they see as the problem. While this seems logical and obvious, in reality they are only treating the symptom or result of their limiting beliefs, the behaviour. They fail to realise that the belief is at the core of their problem. For example if a smoker becomes concerned about their health and wishes to improve their quality of life, then the obvious solution is to simply stop smoking. But why did they begin smoking at all? Do they view smoking as cool? As rebellious? Makes them fit in, acceptable? Or for example as one client did, he was an immigrant and was interned in an immigrant detention centre in the 1970s as a child and he came to
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perhaps most limiting and damaging of these beliefs is: I am nothing. Thats right, almost every person on the planet believe that they are nothing! (The reason behind this belief is explored later ). Obviously this belief is ridiculous, the fact that you are here proves you are not nothing. But remember that beliefs are formed in our early childhood, when we are most vulnerable and easily convinced of anything, regardless of the absurdity. Typically a belief will be kept for the rest of our life. We dont have to keep it but we usually do. Only a life changing event will modify, or eliminate a belief. That is why an event is life changing, what changed is the beliefs. Normally the belief itself remains unchanged. It never matures and therefore maintains the illogic of the young child that created it. So how is such a derogatory belief such as I am nothing formed by such a young innocent child or indeed by almost all young children? It is most likely that you have limiting beliefs and these most likely include I am nothing or something similar. But you didnt always have these beliefs. You were not born with them. They were formed in your early childhood. Before you had those limiting beliefs, you were a beautiful child, eager and enthusiastic to get on with living. You would have been very aware of your sparkly self. You would of course, have been vulnerable and totally dependent on others. Even though you were born you were not yet complete, for you needed certain elements to flourish. Because you needed these elements for survival, we will call them needs. If you are nurtured and are given love, fun, freedom, permission, acceptance, praise, trust, assistance, encouragement and optimism and your right to be you is respected, you will have had your needs met. You will know that you are a complete human being and life will be a wonderful learning experience and you will thrive. But sadly, like most people, you were probably treated with some degree of seriousness (denies fun/life), and rules (denies autonomy), judgement (denies evaluation), rejection (denies acceptance), criticism (denies self trust), fear (denies security), control (denies thriving), limitations (deny evolving), pessimism (denies optimism), orders (deny decision making) and you felt the injustice of not being able to be you. You were given the opposite or absence of what you needed and so you learned to live with your needs being unmet. This is where the dilemma facing the young mind arises. Because all your needs were not supplied to you, you felt incomplete and incapable. You knew
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pain. But how do you fight or flee when the pain is inside you? You cant! Because your pain is yours, you own the pain. You therefore feel that there is something wrong with you (your Me). Logically the brain concludes; I am wrong, I am faulty, I am nothing (no thing), because, I cannot be me (the magnificent sparkle I once was). The brain always seeks to establish balance and being a nobody or nothing fits, it balances the equation: Pain/painful life = Painful beliefs = Faulty (if I am faulty, I am not what I should be, if I am not what I am), I am nothing Do you have a belief (that you of course feel is true) that negatively affects your life? Is this belief beneficial or limiting to you? Do you understand how and why you created it? How has this belief limited your experience of life? Do you want to believe this belief? I am sure you have ample proof that the belief is true. Because, with every belief, your unconscious mind will create experiences that match the belief. And if your beliefs are questioned, your unconscious mind will generate further experiences that match your beliefs, so as to prove the beliefs are true. These generated memories or experiences reinforce the belief and ensure the belief is maintained. You form a self image from your beliefs and you project this image and perceive the world through this image. Your beliefs do define your reality. So, why is your limiting belief true? Only because you chose and continue to choose to believe it! And yet you are probably unaware that you do. There was a time before you had that belief, when that belief wasnt true. If you had formed the opposite belief your unconscious mind would have provided ample experiences and proof for that belief and hence, a different reality and life would have resulted. The reason you have pain, suffering and sadness in your life now, ultimately comes down to the core belief nearly all of us have and that is, I am nothing. Our bio-computer takes this to mean you do not have a right to exist, to be a human being, to breathe the air, to have joy, to have peace and a fantastic life. This of course grows into guilt if you do experience any wonderment; you are having something you shouldnt, that you dont deserve. This belief is the internal, silent
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because of the pain that you felt. You needed a reason to make sense of why you had that belief. This reason became your untrue core belief (I am worthless), and you lost your feeling of magnificence. At some point you resigned yourself to its my fault. It is not your fault. The fault lies with the other person(s). They were being careless, uninformed, lazy, hurting, scared, worried, avoiding their own pain, feeling like nobodies, doing it the way they were taught. They developed the same damaging belief in their childhood. The fault belongs to them; it is theirs, it does not belong in you. The fault is not yours to keep. Let it return back to its rightful owner(s). You do not need it any more. You have to be something in order to become nothing. I am nothing is imposed on top of your magnificent self. Let it go. The fault is nothing to do with blame; there is no blame. The fault just belongs outside of you. It does not belong inside of you. You do not own it! It is not your property! It is important to remove the ownership of the fault from yourself, as this is using the brains natural processes. The brain keeps what it owns, so doing any work without removing ownership of the Fault is futile. Imagine the fault as a tangible object, such as a rock, imagine it, feel it, visualise it. Now imagine the person/s who gave it to you, and give it back to them. In reality there is no fault, it is an illusion, a mental construct. But because you assumed that the fault belongs to you it is necessary to remove it from yourself. For it is like glue that keeps your negative beliefs bound together. The unconscious mind sees the fault as an object, as personal property. Therefore it must reside with someone and hence the reason for giving it back to the so called rightful owner. Remember this is a process using only your imagination. It is not required or helpful to involve anyone else. Understand and know where the fault truly lies and you will be free of that untrue core belief. You will feel the real truth of you, that you are a magnificent human being, you are somebody. It is sad that most people (at least 98%) believe they are nothing/nobody. Lets change that percentage, starting with You. Another process involved in the formation of limiting beliefs is that the beliefs were created by us. We are the creator of the beliefs, but because the beliefs are tied to a fault we take no power from the fact that we are the creator of this powerful tool. In fact we are now a victim of them. It feels that they created us. By removing the fault and realising that we are the creator of beliefs. We can see them
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We feel at fault and ask why we have these beliefs. We imagine a reason that fits eg:- "I am a nobody" or "There is something wrong with me"
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The dimmer switches of our life Every moment of every waking day we have had experiences and these moments of experiences have been the physical history of our life. If we take today for example and we watched a movie of our day, then we would be watching the physical history of our today. What we are seeing has actually happened. If we watch this movie with the sound turned off, we will be more aware of what we are seeing, though it will be a little bit bland. If we watch a movie of a complete stranger going about their day and with the sound turned off. It will be quite bland and we will not know what they are thinking or what meaning they are placing on events. When they are talking to other people, we will only see them talking. We will see their actual physical history. This is real and unchangeable. Without knowing the emotions of the person,
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person as a little golden sparkle usually hidden deep inside the person. It is hidden because whenever we as children, accept something from others (acceptance, love or a toy and have to conform and to give back to the other person something, even something as innocent as a thank you) we have to behave in a certain way that pleases the giver. We are trading, they give me this and I give them that. The that, feels as it is a part of our self, our magnificent self, that is, our soul and we do not feel we get what we want unconditionally. Adults always want something in return! So we go through life trading, selling parts of our self till we get to the point, where we feel we have no more to give. Women get to this point much quicker than men because females are expected to give much more in our society (generally). Our magnificent self has shrunk to such a degree that we have to hide it where no one can find it, we can not afford to allow any more to disappear. The zipper technique 1. First take a few deep breaths to relax the body, as a preparation and to quieten the mind. Place some markers in a line representing conception, birth and the present day and some significant times in your life, about three. The longer you make this line the better, about ten metres is good. Look at that imaginary line joining the markers and realise that this represents the history of your life. Take a slow walk along this line from the present to conception and back to the present. I usually am gently holding the persons shoulder. Their unconscious feels supported and it is surprising how wobbly the person can feel. While you are walking along this line know that you are walking through your past. Your unconscious is accessing all the information of your past as you do this. When you get to the present look back along that line and see/imagine a path from birth to the present and describe it, what colour is it? What is it made of? What texture is it? Fully describe the path. This visualisation of the path is the representation of the conditioning that takes place as a result of the meanings and beliefs etc. You can change or eliminate beliefs etc but the type of path is the foundation that will still influence your life. In simple we automatically follow the path.
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here are many methods of entering trance, I will show you a basic one that when you master it, you can easily adopt other methods or create your own. There are plenty of self hypnosis books for sale or in the library. Meditation, yoga and martial arts etc. are other forms of focusing the unconscious mind and have the same natural automatic benefits. First of all it is important not to be in a hurry. I know it is difficult in this instant world to expect to get what you want instantly. This is not magic, it takes time and patience. First you need to practice entering trance, once you have mastered this you can practice utilizing the trance to achieve what you want. So lets start. Work out a schedule that is suitable and realistic for you to keep. Perhaps wake up earlier in the morning, have a shower to fully wake up. Or you may prefer night time. Any how. Set aside a twenty minute session time daily. The unconscious mind learns things in a routine fashion, so you have set aside your special time each day. www.healyourcancer.org Page 179
Now you need a place to do it. Ideally a quiet room where you won't be disturbed, have a comfortable and supportive chair that for the first three weeks you only use for your hypnosis. Your unconscious will expect to go into trance every time you sit in the chair, so the process starts the moment you sit down. Sit in the chair in your special place - does it feel comfortable?, do you feel safe? is there any disturbances?, rearrange until it is suitable. Have an alarm clock if needed, and set it for twenty minutes, that way you won't have to be concerned about how long you're in trance. You have allotted the time, and the alarm will signal the end of the session if you haven't already finished. Now sit in the chair, relax into it, have your clothing loose and comfortable. Take a few deep breaths (keeping your eyes open), and every time you exhale, notice that you are relaxing a little. This prepares you and signals your mind that you are about to enter hypnosis. Now begin by closing your eyes and behind your closed eyelids, look up to a centre point in the middle of your forehead. Focus on this point (your eyes roll up to this position each time you go to sleep, so it is an effective trigger for your conscious mind to switch off). Take three long slow breaths, and on each exhale say to yourself 'deeper relaxed'. Now repeat this affirmation (at the start you might have to open your eyes and read it, or if your practice reading it during the day, you will remember it easily), 'I am a magnificent human being, my mind and body is so magnificently created that no feat of engineering could ever duplicate the uniqueness of myself, my imagination is the greatest force in the universe, I imagine myself going deeper and deeper into trance' Lower your eyes so they relax deeply, and imagine a wave of relaxation flowing all the way through your body. Take another three long slow deep breaths, focusing your awareness on your nostrils feeling the air entering and leaving as you breathe. Each time you exhale imagine that you are twice as relaxed. You will notice the physical sensations, such as your body sagging or slight muscle twitches, as your body relaxes. Now start counting down backwards from 100 to 1 to yourself. Tie the count with your breathing as you exhale, imagine that you feel the numbers being forced out of your nostrils. If thoughts enter your awareness, simply watch the thought for one or two seconds to let it pass and drift back to your count, if you can't remember your last number, it doesn't matter, don't try to remember, just pick one that seems appropriate. This is a passive process, the aim is to make it
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abilities, 153 adaptation, 29, 30, 44 adrenalin, 40 adventure, 153 affirmation, 178 arthritis, 30, 40, 45 Asbestosis, 42 attached, 41, 69, 76, 170, 173, 175 Attachments, 76 awareness, 134 balance, 168 Balance, 39 behaviour, 49, 164 Beliefs, 49, 69, 163, 164, 165 birth, 35, 174, 175 blueprint, 35, 69, 70 brain, 37, 40, 48, 153, 163, 165, 167, 170, 176 Calm, 183 cancer, 30, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 45 Cancer, 34, 36, 38, 41, 42 cells, 37, 42 change, 29, 31, 34, 36, 152, 164, 165, 169, 170, 173, 174 Change, 34 childhood, 30, 165, 166, 170 choices, 154 civilisation, 164 commitment, 51 Commitment, 51 compassion, 42 computer, 36, 37, 163, 167, 168, 169 concept, 48, 164, 165, 173 conditioning, 174 conform, 174 conscious, 35, 36, 37, 39, 69, 134, 135, 167 consciousness, 37 control, 37, 39, 42, 47, 50, 76, 166, 167, 183 Control, 71 create, 50, 153, 165, 168, 170 creation, 45 creator, 170, 175 criticism, 166 Cross motivations, 48 define, 168 disease, 31, 34, 44, 45, 48 dog, 170 efficiency, 151, 163, 164 ego, 37, 38, 167, 173 energy, 39, 40 essence, 41, 154, 176 faulty, 38, 135, 167, 168, 169, 171 Faulty, 168 fear, 37, 38, 50, 133, 151, 153, 166 Fear, 50 feedback, 41 filtered, 164 foundation, 45, 174, 175 fulfilment, 164 goal, 47, 48, 49, 133 Happiness, 71 harmony, 29, 35, 39, 44, 134, 154, 165 Harmony, 71, 183 heal, 30, 31, 48, 50 healing, 30, 31, 41, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50 Healing, 46, 50, 51 Health, 50, 71 history, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176 hypnosis, 129, 177, 178, 179 Hypnosis, 50 identity, 41, 165, 173 illness, 29, 30, 44, 49, 50, 51 Illness, 29, 30 illusion, 170 image, 165, 168 imagination, 170 importance, 35, 37, 47, 48, 69, 71 Importance, 47 information, 2, 30, 31, 36, 40, 45, 51, 163, 164, 165, 174 injustice, 166
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process, 29, 30, 31, 36, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 71, 76, 163, 167, 170 purpose, 42, 46, 50, 165, 173 qualities, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 46, 69 quest, 45 reality, 38, 164, 168, 170, 173 rejection, 36, 40, 42, 166 resistance, 165 rights, 2 rock, 170 rules, 36, 37, 166 Safety, 71 sand, 42 secret, 168 see-saw, 37, 39 self image, 165, 168 seriousness, 166 Seriousness, 71 Shame, 71 smoking, 164, 165 soul, 41, 174 space, 41, 50, 154 Space, 50 sparkle, 167, 168, 174, 175 struggle, 155 suffering, 30, 34, 48, 167, 168, 169 survival, 29, 35, 36, 37, 69, 70, 166, 167 Survival, 42 Time, 73, 136, 151, 153 trance, 177, 178, 179 True Self, 173 truth, 38, 136, 164, 170, 171, 173 unconscious, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 46, 47, 49, 50, 69, 134, 165, 167, 168, 170, 174 understand, 31, 154, 165, 168, 169 Understand, 170 unimportant, 76, 136, 167 unknown, 171 unlovable, 134, 167, 169 vacuum, 50 values, 69, 70, 71, 133, 136 Values, 71 vulnerable, 166, 167 worthless, 59, 134, 167, 169 zipper, 129, 174, 175 Zipper, 173
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